Elisabeth Gsottbauer

Short BioElisabeth Gsottbauer is a PhD candidate at ICTA, UAB. Her fields of specialization include environmental policy and behavioral economics. Under the supervision of Jeroen van den Bergh her Phd research focuses on environmental policy design taking into account behavior that is not fully rational as well as pro-social behavior. Topics include bounded rationality, social preferences, status, and habits. She graduated from Economics and Political Economy, University of Innsbruck, Austria in 2008. She also holds an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Innsbruck School of Political Science and Sociology. Elisabeth is interested in different aspects of environmental policy instruments related to human behavior and decision making. In her research she is working on behavioral economics with issues such as the influence of social preferences on different environmental policy interventions. This includes norms, rules of conduct, social influence/identities and effects on behavior. The goal of her work is to use a more realistic model of human behavior in order to render robust policy recommendations for the environment.